Discuss anything and everything related to the Transformers Live Action Films franchise, which are directed by Michael Bay. Transformers 3 is scheduled to be released on July 1st, 2011. Check out our Live Action Film section here.

Looks like the rumor was true! Paramount is searching for a new female lead who can play the part of a high school senior age character and a new male lead to play the part of her boyfriend and Texas race car driver. See below courtesy of Acting-Auditions.org.

The casting call also confirms that TF4 will take place after the events in DOTM and that Peter Cullen and Glen Morshower will reprise their roles from the previous trilogy.

"Transformers 4" will begin filming in April or May 2012.AB Media Publishing, LLC

Di Bonaventura Pictures and DreamWorks SKG in association with Hasbro are in development on the Paramount Pictures science fiction action film "Transformers 4". The casting directors are auditioning actors for the new lead roles in the film, as neither Shia LaBeouf or Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are returning. The female lead role is an 18 year old or above who can play high school senior age, and the male lead is an early twenties Texas race car driver who plays the female lead's boyfriend. Shooting will take place in various locations beginning in April or May of 2013. This film is currently being referred to as "Untitled Transformers Sequel".

Directors Guild of America DGA Award winner Michael Bay will return to direct his fourth installment of the film series from a screenplay written by Ehren Kruger, who also wrote "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon". Bay has said that this will be his final installment in the franchise, however Hasbro has stated that they would like to continue making additional Transformers films with or without Michael Bay. Writer Ehren Kruger's other credits include "Arlington Road," "Scream 3 & 4," "The Ring," "The Skeleton Key," and "The Brothers Grimm".

Three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg will again executive produce, along with Mark Vahradian for Di Bonaventura Pictures, and Brian Goldner for Hasbro. Producers are Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, and Academy Award nominee Ian Bryce. Spielberg and Bryce have collaborated on other films including "Saving Private Ryan," for which they both won Golden Globe Awards. Bryce also worked as assistant director on the Spielberg directed film "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", and production manager on Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". More recently Bryce and Michael Bay both produced the Paramount Pictures feature film "Pain & Gain", on which Bay also directed.

There has been some speculation that "Transformers 4" and "Transformers 5" will be shot back-to-back with Michael Bay at the helm, however there has been no official confirmation of this. Hasbro CEO announced at the company’s third quarter earnings conference that they were actively discussing this strategy with Paramount, director Michael Bay and producer Steven Spielberg. Glenn Morshower, who appeared as General Morshower in the first three "Transformers" films stated that Bay and Spielberg were not only working on "Transformers 4", but more than likely "Transformers 5" as well. "Transformers 4" is scheduled to hit theaters on June 27, 2014.

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Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) returns with a new group of robot characters, and new male and female leads in "Transformers 4". The story will take off where the last film left off in Chicago, and expand on the history of the first three films in the series.

zodconvoy wrote:Good. The human cast should be wiped clean. Still, this squashes the hopes for a well written movie.

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I'd be cool with it, if it meant this was going to take off with Optimus + Wreckers = Wreckers + Optimus, and have Springer, Magnus, Kup and Whirl show up to take on Dreadwing, Bludgeon and Thunderwing. To fight for Cybertron's remnants only to end the movie with the arrival of the Chaos Bringer.

But I'm sure it will end up being a ten sex, angst, fart humors, robot testicled, steereotypical nightware DX bayexplosive robot jerk fest. But still have no actual story that matches up, with anything, that has ever been written, or even match the other movies, even though this continues the story...

Everything I just read make me wanna ..... forever. I honestly would have liked DOTM until I read the book before the movie came out. Once I read the book and how awesome it was, the movie was destined to fail. So maybe this one will have a good book too. I'm gonna go ahead and say this as well: I bet Unicron shows up (possibly being drawn by what happened to Cybertron in DOTM) and reformats/fixes Megz into Galvatron. IMO.

"Destiny has one great test in store for us all... has mine already come? And have I failed it?... A deed, once done, cannot be undone. But perhaps... it may yet be mitigated!" -- Dinobot, "Code of Hero"

Yeah lets just classify this one as DOA right noe and move on, maybe if we ignore this one & its laziness this nightmare will end & the franchise can get put back on track. Oh wait that'll never happen cause of the brain dead mindless masses out there that will see anything with explosions in it. Still say the only way to save the franchise is to wipe the slate clean wait a few years and star all over. Id rather go 2 or 3 years with out transformers if it ment getting something worth while.

Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.

Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah lets just classify this one as DOA right noe and move on, maybe if we ignore this one & its laziness this nightmare will end & the franchise can get put back on track. Oh wait that'll never happen cause of the brain dead mindless masses out there that will see anything with explosions in it. Still say the only way to save the franchise is to wipe the slate clean wait a few years and star all over. Id rather go 2 or 3 years with out transformers if it ment getting something worth while.

This deserves a "Like" button.

"Destiny has one great test in store for us all... has mine already come? And have I failed it?... A deed, once done, cannot be undone. But perhaps... it may yet be mitigated!" -- Dinobot, "Code of Hero"

assembling a Neo-G1/TF:TM cast. Please PM if you have (or know of) the following at a reasonable price: Classics or Henkei Astrotrain, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, or 3rd Party iGear Ratchet and Ironhide. Also looking for Universe Repugnus and Overbite, Frostbite and Longhorn and any Webdiver toys.

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah lets just classify this one as DOA right noe and move on, maybe if we ignore this one & its laziness this nightmare will end & the franchise can get put back on track. Oh wait that'll never happen cause of the brain dead mindless masses out there that will see anything with explosions in it. Still say the only way to save the franchise is to wipe the slate clean wait a few years and star all over. Id rather go 2 or 3 years with out transformers if it ment getting something worth while.

It'll still make a Billion Dollars, but make Battlfield: Earth look like a Shakespeare novel.

Yeah, I'd be curious how it would go if they completely rebooted and tried to do a nice G1 continuity movie... live action or animated. Seeing the Ark crash on earth, dinobots, constructicons, insecticons... all in CGI. Would be amazing.

This was probably covered years ago, but I was wondering if there was an explanation as to why Glen Morshower's character was called Colonel Sharp in the first movie but then General Morshower in that which followed. Obviously I'm interested more in the change of name than rank. Please tell me it wasn't a case of "...as far as we know there were no survivors [but we just so happen to have this General who's the spitting image of one of the dead guys]."

Sharp and Morshower are 2 completely different characters, they just got Morshower to play both. Sharp was indeed killed in the base strike in the first movie. General Morshower is also in the military in real life for those that didn't know

Megatron Wolf wrote:I am sick to death of people like you who corral people like me into a group and give them such a negative label.

Yeah, we need to take the hate away from our fellow fans, and keep it on Bay where it belongs.

My dislike for the movies and toylines aside, I still know they pumped life into the franchise and kept the TF line going strong... so we could see the sidelines like (the amazing) Classics and FOC (and I actually like PowerCore as well... much fun.)

So somewhere in the back of my head, I know all that relentless barrage of horrible Bumblebee repaints sold to little kids helped fund the bots I'm buying.

So that tip of the hat extends to fellow fans like MegatronWolf. They're collecting movie stuff keeps the classics, FOC, masterpiece toys coming.

gothsaurus wrote:My dislike for the movies and toylines aside, I still know they pumped life into the franchise and kept the TF line going strong... so we could see the sidelines like (the amazing) Classics

Actually, Classics was released in 2006, before the films. And before the Bumblebee Bombard.

and FOC (and I actually like PowerCore as well... much fun.)

FOC is a part of Generations, which is a successor to Classics.

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Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.

Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.

Megatron Wolf wrote:Oh wait that'll never happen cause of the brain dead mindless masses out there that will see anything with explosions in it.

You know, as someone who didn't mind the movies despite their problems, I am sick to death of people like you who corral people like me into a group and give them such a negative label.

I won't apologise to you for liking something you don't like, but seriously, people have different tastes to you. Deal with it.

I agree, it's total nonsense to say that the ones saw it in theaters are stupid ignorant homeless people. I'm a first class transformers fan and I've seen it 3 times in cinemas. I've enjoyed the 3 movies, 2 did have horrible moments and overall it doesn't come close to what High Moon did in FOC.